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BOTANY. 



tiful flowers, but from eigliteen to twenty or more species from 

 Europe and Asia are commonly to be found in gardens and conser- 

 vatories. (Fig. 476.) 



Tribe PotentillecB. — Mostly herbs, witb usually compound 



Figs. 473-5.— Illustbations op Tribe Pomb^. 



Fig. 473. 



Fig. 474. Pie. 475. 



Fig. 473.— Flower cluster of Piiiis communis. 



Fig. 474.— Section of Quince flower inrus Oydonia). 



Fig. 478.- Section of Quince fruit. 



leaves ; carpels free, one to many, mostly on a convex fleshy receptacle ■ 

 fruits dry (achenia). 

 Fragaria elatior, of Europe, F. vesca, of Europe and Eastern United 



